The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
General and miscellaneous.

The July payroll of the Pullman company
footed up $156, 600.
H. c. Eversole has been appointed official ex-
aminer of the watches carried by the employees
on the Wabash Western.
Richard Craig, who formerly ran an engine
the Wabash. has been appointed superin-
tendent of the Argentine Republic road.
Russia will celebrate, on Oct 80. the fftieth
anniversary of the opening of her first railroad.
That country now has 1000 miles of railroad.
The Michigan Central road is expanding
siderable sum of money this season in erecting
neat com modious, modern-style station houses
at several points
Railroad earnings are not SO satisfactory as
thirty days ago, yet it is believed that when the
July earnings are all in, they will show gain
over July, 1886, of 10 per cent
Peach trains to be run between the peach
orchards of delaware and Boston were put on
yesterday. The distance is 400 miles. and the
run is made in thirty two hours.
Atlanta roads have set the indianapolis roads
an excellent example They offering to
bring everybody to that city who wishes to at
tend the coming exposition at cent per mile.
The committee chosen to select the best auto
matte coupler by the Master Car builders Assoc
citation have excluded from consideration all but
hook couplers. except those which far Of
the JaDney type as to couple with it.
William Marshall, conductor of the first pas
senger train that ran between Albany and Sche-
nectady, in 1881, IL vigorous resident of the
latter city. He is echty-seven years old, and
bids fair to celebrate his centennial
The Jersey City board Of improvements are
encouraging the Pennsylvania road In building
it's elevated road to rts docks in Jersey City, and
show a willingness to grade streets and make
other needed improvements to complete the
work
Freight agents still revising and scaling
down rates. They have now been at it sixteen
weeks and are still unable to state when they
return to their usual vocation-lookng
after the freight business of the road. Nearly
all the revisions benefit shippers
The induction system of train teiegraphing on
the Lehigh Valley railroad is working extremely
well and IS quite largely patronzed by passen-
gers who pay extra ten for sending
messages over the Western Union rates. The
telegraph office" is in the drawng-room car.
Report has it that the Chicago g. Rock Island
the Chicago Alton, the Missouri Pacific and
bone and will fight the boycott on the part of
Eastern roads by establishing agencies for the
sale of their tickets at all important points east
of Chicago.
President Bliss, of the Boston e. Albany rail-
road, has offered to put fast mail service
between New York and Boston for $165 900.
This train would leave Boston after the close of
business and go right through in season for the
first distribution OF the carriers in the morning,
and vice versa.
A Philadelphia mandatory is building
sleeping cars to be street railway in
South America. There four berths in each
car. and during the day they fold up out of the
way do berths in Pullman These cars
hauled lengthy tramways hauled by
horses, as fuel is dear and horses cheap 1t is
said the price of two tons of coal will buy horse
and set of harness.